plumber

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”). The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈplʌmə/ (Northern England) IPA(key): /ˈplʊmə/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈplʌməɾ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈplʌmɚ/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈplɐmə/ (South Asia) IPA(key): /pləm(b)ə(r)/ Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Homophone: Plummer === Noun === plumber (plural plumbers) (dated) One who works in or with lead. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information. (UK, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer. (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== plumbing ==== Descendants ==== → Irish: pluiméir → Welsh: plymer ==== Translations ==== === Verb === plumber (third-person singular simple present plumbers, present participle plumbering, simple past and past participle plumbered) (transitive, US, slang) To botch or ruin. Synonym: plumber up For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plumber. (intransitive, informal, rare) To work as a plumber. Synonym: plumb For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plumber. (transitive, informal, rare) To work on (something) as a plumber. Synonym: plumber up For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plumber. (transitive, slang, rare) To do, work, devise (something). For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plumber. (transitive, informal, rare) To equip (something) with plumbing. Synonym: plumber up For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plumber. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments Harold Wentworth, Stuart Berg Flexner, compilers (1960), “plumb —er v.t.”, in Dictionary of American Slang, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, published May 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 398, column 2. “plumber v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. === Anagrams === replumb == Latin == === Verb === plumber first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumbō